Pulse: Party Game

New: Pulse runs on iPhone too, in four languages, with 1500 original spectra per language. All offline, no account, no ads.

Pulse is a party game about how well you read each other.

One player takes the device and sees a hidden spot on a scale, somewhere between two extremes: from "camping" to "hotel", from "snooze" to "up at once". With exactly one word they try to get that spot across. Everyone else turns the big needle to where they think it sits. The closer they land, the more points.

You need nothing but each other. No knowledge, no reflexes, just an opinion.

TWO ROUND TYPES • Clue — the app draws a hidden target and the Sender catches it in a single word. • Estimate — nothing is drawn. The Sender puts the needle where they see themselves, and the others guess where that is. Now you are not playing on words but on how well you know each other.

FOR TWO TO TWELVE PLAYERS With two people you play Co-op: take turns sending and guessing, working toward the target score together. With four or more you play Duel, in two to four teams. The waiting teams can bet along with a counterpulse, so nobody sits idle.

FAIR SCORING The score falls off smoothly with distance instead of in bands, so there is never an argument about just inside or just outside. Teams that stay sharp for several rounds build momentum up to 1.75x. A gap is always closable.

SIX THOUSAND SPECTRA 1500 per language, spread across fourteen categories: daily life, food, work, America, vacation, movies, TV shows, music, internet, sports, childhood, relationships, school and random. Not translations of each other, but written separately for each language.

START RIGHT AWAY The first time, Pulse plays a short practice round with you, step by step. After that the explanation is always on the home screen. Your group is remembered, so the next game starts without typing names again.

PERFECT WHEN THERE IS NO SIGNAL No account, no ads, no in-app purchases, no internet. Pulse collects nothing and sends nothing. Everything you set stays on your own device, which makes it a road trip game, a cabin game and a waiting-room game as much as a game night game.

On iPad, Pulse sits in the middle of the table. On iPhone, you pass it around. Both in landscape.